age inequality/identity

• Statistics


  83% of adults gone online with nearly all 16 to 24, and 25 to 34 on 98%

  9% increase in number of people online over the age of 65, from 33% in 2012 to 43% in 2014
• example


  Ofcom: the Guardian

  Shows all the generations use less tech but children use tech more with the developments of mobile phones and social media which are Snapchat and shows there is a digital divide between the elderly and the youth

  Affect the young negatively it impacts their social skills and impact old because they feel isolated due to lack of skills
• Boyle 


  Digital generational, divide

  New media is often associated with the youth as they use it more and rely on it such as texting friends or using Internet for homework, and this has created a divide because the older less likely to use it

  Learn new skills and plays greater importance on social networks and parents are spending more money on their children to buy phones laptops
• Berry, – older users of the Internet


  Those who don’t use the Internet said it’s due to a lack of skills, but old who do use it use websites and phones with big fonts

  The website Finerday has been set up, which is a social network similar to Facebook and encourages old people to use it because it has larger fonts and a simplified format
• Damant- 


  due to elderly using tech less, they can feel excluded and feel lonely and excluded from activities, such as shopping or banking and lack access

  Old people don’t use the Internet because of the lack of skills and lack of interest because they grow up without it so I’m not reliant like you
• older people


  Don’t use Internet much due to lack of skills and interest because they grew up without it so are not reliant like the youth

  Changing because now things are designed to help the elderly use it easier such as bold fonts on WhatsApp
• positive of digital communication

  Support/help, – support groups, enable children to gain, help in ways, such as charities, like MindsMatter set up to offer support to young people for mental health
• positive of digital communication

  Skills development – children learn valuable skills, such as enhancing and creating important new connections, increases social capital
• positive of digital communication

  Activism – children more likely to engage with political or social issues, such as online campaigns and social movements, such as black lives matter on TikTok Instagram, Snapchat
• negative digital communication


  Toxic parenting, –Palmer says good quality parenting is replacing by parents using technology to occupy children. Children feel isolated and unable to relate to this face-to-face, because they are being socialised by technology rather than human beings.
• negative digital communication


  Disappearance of childhood- Postman says Internet exposes children to adult content including sex, violence and disturbing ideas, such as violence and can access on range of online platforms, such as the Internet and video games like GTA
• negative digital communication


  Modern slavery – risk of children being exploited online, for example, in section abuse with the increase in online sharing of child, pornography, human trafficking, organise online and sex tourism
• negative digital communication


  Fitting in – children feel greater pressure to conform to society. Expectations perpetuated by the media about body size, shape, behaviour address and so on which makes them unhappy if they are unable to do so.

  Leads to cyber bullying and problem of Clickbait and misinformation young people can access such as catfishes
• both positive and negative digital communication

  Armchair, activism/slacktivism- slacktivism is showing support for a course with the main purpose of boosting eagles of participants in movement and has little effect other than to make the person doing it feel satisfied that they have contributed

  Activism is just example, posting some like a black screen for black lives matter and doing it from the comfort of your armchair, and you’re not actively actually doing anything other than just doing it from your phone